CLASS MOBILITY: MANICURISTS' SPATIAL STRATEGIES AND IDENTITY NEGOTIATION
CAI Xiao-mei1,3, LIU Mei-xin2,3, PENG Xing-xing1,3
1. School of Tourism Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
3. Cultural Industry and Cultural Geography Research Center, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract Class mobility has been the research focus of social science. Existing literature has noted that the dynamics of Class mobility is inextricably interwoven with identity politics and emphasized how cultural capital and education promote class mobility, yet relatively less attention has been paid to how class identity is spatially constituted from a geographical perspective. In the context of China's rural-urban division, space always already implies the possibility of class mobility. This article explores how underclass achieve upward mobility through spatial tactics and identity negotiation. By deploying qualitative methods including indepth interview, participant observation and text analysis, this paper focuses on the identity politics of manicurists working at the middle and high-end nail salons in Guangzhou, and in particular how occupational identity facilitates and reconstruct their perception of class and how they perform and negotiate identity in different spaces. The article found that:1) In the working space, the material decoration, body consumption discipline and the interpersonal interaction with consumers have cooperatively stimulated manicurists' aspiration for high urban class and embodied their imagination of class; 2) Although manicurists try to perform their similarities and urbanity with upper class through their embodied and symbolic consumption, they cannot achieve identity reconstruction and class mobility and integrate into space of urban class; 3) In the hometown space, manicurists show their distinction with other rural workers by performing urbanity's daily consumption, entrepreneurship and different living space in order to achieve self-transformation and upward class mobility and businessmen at small towns.
CAI Xiao-mei,LIU Mei-xin,PENG Xing-xing. CLASS MOBILITY: MANICURISTS' SPATIAL STRATEGIES AND IDENTITY NEGOTIATION[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2018, 33(6): 44-52.
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